Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LADIES STOOD near the window of the union headquarters on Harrison Avenue. When they speak about the future they speak of retirement. It doesn't matter whether you were in the trade from 16-40. At 62 you are eligible to collect the retirement pension but you must have worked at least 20 years, the last ten consecutively. "You grow with the shop...
...have come to count on Washington's annual check for part of their income, whether or not they actually need it. The maze of rules surrounding federal farm policy has turned farming into a kind of beat-the-Government-at-its-own-game business, encouraging some farmers to collect subsidies that rightfully they should...
...Abolish parity. Probably no concept in modern government is more meaningless than parity, which is the relationship between the price that farmers collect for their crops and livestock, and what they pay for the goods and services that they use. Parity harks back to Washington's Depression-era effort to raise farm prices to their level in 1910-14, which farmers then remembered as "good times." The optimum parity is 100, the theoretical level that prevailed in pre-World War I days. Today, parity is running at a relatively high mark of 80. Considering that farm productivity has changed...
...Bodron had a record, too, and it was replete with questionable divisions of interest. He was lawyer for several small loan companies, while he served as chairman of the Senate committee which handled legislation regulating them. He had voted to let credit card companies collect 18 per cent interest in Mississippi, while Brown voted to hold the line at 12. And he had been retained as a lawyer by Litton Industries about the same time he was helping persuade Senators to put the full financial credit of Mississippi behind construction of Litton's giant shipyard on the Gulf Coast...
...learned some lessons. Chief among them was that it takes money to run a Congressional campaign, and that money comes mostly from conservative businessmen. It's hard to knock the banks and retail merchants and big industries and still collect campaign contributions...